Dabrowski Battalion

The Dabrowski Battalion was a battalion of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, chiefly composed of Polish miners living and working in Belgium and France. The brigade's men were among the first to arrive in Spain upon the start of the civil war in 1936, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were predominantly Polish, even when Spanish troops heavily outnumbered Polish troops in the battalion towards the end of the war. The brigade fought at Madrid and Jarama, and it suffered appalling casualties during the war.